254 Quotes by Courtney Summers

I wish I didn’t have a body, sometimes.

No, you’re a work of art.

I woke up and the last piece of my heart disappeared. I opened my eyes and I felt it go.

In high school, you don’t get to change. You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

A whole world exists outside of that hellhole.

No one’s got any anywhere they need to be but they all want to be somewhere else, so they’re not happy. If my dad taught me anything, it’s that you can’t make people like that happy. You just have to survive them as best you can.

I stood over her crib and listened to her breathing, watching the rise and fall of her tiny chest. I pressed my palm against it and felt myself through her. She was breathing, alive. And I was too.

If I know anything it’s that a girl never makes a case for herself by crying. It’s just one more side of herself she’s showed can’t be trusted.

Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.